rules of attraction

"the view that the desire to become a man or a transman or to live transgendered is motivated by a repudiation of feminity presumes that every person born with female anatomy is therefore in possession of a proper feminity (whether innate, symbolically assumed, or socially assigned), one that can either be owned or disowned, appropriated or expropiated. Indeed, the critique of male-to-female (MTF) transsexuality has centered on the appropriation of feminity, as if it belongs properly to a given sex, as if sex is discretely given, as if gender identity could and should be derived unequivocally from presumed anatomy".

Undoing gender
Judith Butler